Breathe ~ Relax ~ Drink Black Tea Often
Left at the front gate
a bicycle dreams street dreams
Grassy pillow talk
Silver front door bell
alerts the entire street
to possible gifts
Mushroom gills breathing
in their newly mulched garden
Overnight tenants
Dead lettuce office
After weekend barbecue
Monday morning wilt
My workspace is squeezed
between kitchen and laundry
Black tea and white sheets
The busiest moth
flapping and winging its day
Resting between leaves
Lorikeet browsing
the latest bottle-brush crop
Colour no object
Surveying its realm
from the most expansive leaf
Tiniest spider
A sunflower’s dream
is to wake every day
a little closer
Lattice and shadecloth
play hide and seek with the sun
until the noon break
A visiting cat
Watching for everything
Takes her snapshots home
Bean pod counting frame
ready for any keen eye
Shade additional
A special dessert
made only once a year
No trifling matter
Through glassy droplets
jelly-bean colours jiggling
Sweet kaleidoscope
Hundreds and thousands
before they hit the icing
slopes of Mount Cupcake
Frangipani blooms
on the corner up the hill
Worth the scented climb
Departing droplet
takes its final stretching fling
Interdependence
A cactus flower
that I saw bloom yesterday
Exhausting lifestyle
A trudging beetle
continues yesterday’s task
Leafing through the trees
Baltic amber trapped
and hanging in its new space
An ancient key-chain
Delicate petals
swaying on extra long stalks
The better to breathe
Mantis in disguise
hanging in garden relief
Undercover twig
On the books today
a spidery narrative
Spinning garden tales
Cicada secret
signalling with its raised leg
Whispering summer
Ladder of success
A shadowy illusion
Lost after sundown
Three knitted birds perch
in real trees above our heads
Thready colours thrive
Passing jellyfish
Spineless determination
Swimming with the tide
Windswept fighting kite
challenges a passing jet
High aspirations
New tiki totem
of Ku and Kanaloa
Veranda watching
Tibetan prayer bowls
Unique in their vibration
Singing the moment